The artist has given the complete sum of his £25,000 honor cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to protect the UK's small music venues.
He was awarded the cheque on October 16 as his latest record the album was declared the top album of the last 12 months.
The musician has decided to donate the funds to the trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function small stages fulfilled in his early career.
"As an artist would not have achieved my current career if it weren't for all the performances I played around the region, and further afield, when I was starting out," remarked the artist. "These spaces are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these locations have shut down – roughly one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including the band Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by adding a minor surcharge to their ticket prices, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also took part, raising more than £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist numerous grassroots venues across the UK.
The donation helped locations that were dealing with possible closure due to issues stemming from water damage, blazes and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, conflicts and sound issues.
Some locations obtained funding support in modernizing facilities and sound and lighting systems that helped musicians and audiences.
"The idea that revenue from performances in big venues helps the local stages, where it begins for musicians like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is not the first artist to donate his award winnings to charitable organizations.
Back when they won the prize in the year 1996 for their record Different Class, lead singer the singer declared that the band would contribute their cash to the organization War Child.
During 2002, artist she split her bounty between multiple charities, such as the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told a publication.
Previously, the band contributed their funds to the community center that nurtured their act, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally winners that year the group donated their winnings to a charity for MS after a friend was identified with the disease.
"Winning was quite enough," stated singer the singer. "The prize was the cherry on top but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the honor. So our success impacted another person's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had saved several grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into local control.
The first in the city and the other in that location were purchased under the public acquisition scheme, which is supported by Arts Council England and enthusiasts who buy "ownership units" in the buildings.
